Going Fashionably Cultural with Headwraps for 1999

AUTHOR(S)

Scott, Georgia

PUB. DATE

January 1999

SOURCE

New York Amsterdam News;

SOURCE TYPE

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the trend affecting the use of headwraps for African American women for 1999. Features of the headpieces used by singer Erykah Badu; Comment by Carla Brown, art and history teacher at New York College and owner of Beyond Braids hair-care salon; Tips on using headwraps.

Photographs of several stylish hats for African American women, as well as beauty tips when wearing various styles, are presented, including the Harlem's Heaven feather headband, the Lola Hats leopard pillbox and the Alexandre Herchcovitch twill top with lace.

Presents a letter from an author with the pseudonym `Matilda,' pleading for education of Negro women in the United States. First appearance of the letter in the August 10, 1827 issue of `Freedom's Journal,' the first Negro newspaper. Her view about the mathematical knowledge of Negro women; Her...

Reflects on the image that African women in general and Cameroonian women in particular have of the United States (U.S.) and France. Hope attributed by African women to the U.S.; How the images of America is transmitted in Africa; Imitation of life style from the U.S.

Part of a special report: Black Women in Corporate America. More and more black women are fleeing the corporate nest to spread their entrepreneurial wings. Statistics; Examples; Where to get information on entrepreneur organizations.

Part of a special report: Black Women in Corporate America. Profiles several black women in the upper echelons; Opportunities and barriers; Why so few make it to the top; Internationalism of the marketplace; Breaking into the corporate club. INSET: The path to the executive suite.;Detoured by...

Discusses the practice and theory of black feminism. Objective of black feminism; Factors essential to contemporary black feminism; Formation of the National Black Feminist Organization; Information on the rise of a black feminist jurisprudence; In-depth look at discrimination against African...